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Thursday, May 08, 2008

doing laundry is dangerous...

...because it gives me too much time to think about what I could be making.

I was pairing and folding socks and thought, what if I made a quilt top a day? How much fun would that be? I must have gotten the idea from Martha, who is making a piece of clothing a day.

I don't think that I will be able to make all the quilts back to back, but I hope to make a few each week. I will be starting my own little series here on the blog. So far I have 12 quilts on my list to (try to) do in a day. Each will be a simple design that I have been wanting to make for awhile. The goal is that all of them will use fabric from my stash, which is an added and maybe the only benefit to my hair-brained idea.

Here's the first one.

I started this one yesterday and finished it this afternoon.

It measures 51" x 66".

I think I had better stop doing laundry. Who knows what I will come up with next. :)

edit: since so many of you have asked, I thought I should add that this is not a pattern. It is inspired by Denyse Schmidt, but I pieced it all improvisationally.

My goodness woman, are you out of your mind???!!!! The crazy thing is, I know you can do it. You do such beautiful work, and with such speed. The rest of us out here are plodding along feeling good about 2 blocks a day. It is going to be fun watching your progress.

wow, that's amazing! Loving those aquas. I would never be able to pull off something like that in a day. Looking forward to the lovely treats ;-)Btw, Thanks for posting the setting blocks. It's going to be easy in the end if they are get done along with the blocks.

Ok. I have decided that you are an alien.(albeit a lovely one) You have some sort of weird hold over time and can bend it to your will - you just get so much done. I would still be unfolding rubbish from the stash and you have gone and completed the whole top.You are truly amazing.

I have a have a daughter that would love it if I made that quilt. She just loves anything blue. It is a very fun quilt. I am amazed that you whipped it out that quickly you are much more efficient than me. Thanks for being an inspiration! Can't wait to see what else you do.Smiles!

Unbelievable! I'm hoping to get just the borders finished on quilt a long #1 today. I'm proud to say my block is finished and posted for this week though.I'm glad your here to keep us aprised of what's possible! Thanks.(Seriously how much time did it take?)

Wow, a quilt in a day I wish I could make that much progress. I love this quit it reminds me of a nice day at the beach. I can almost smell the salt in the air and see the white sandy beaches. The white and light blue colors look so clean and crips.

Have I told you that you were amazing? I'm sure I have, and I'm sure others have said the same. That top is WONDERFUL. Not only are you fast, but your stuff is FANTASTIC. And here I'm waiting for the "perfect" background fabric before I even start your quilt along!

I usually use parchment quilters only cotton from Joann's, which I do buy by the bolt, usually on sale, 50% off. for this one, though I used a white white. I buy about 5 yards at a time if I think I am going to use it for a background color.

I did this in about a day. I started one afternoon and finished the next afternoon. for this quilt, it helped that I had made one in this style before, so I knew what I was doing. that helped a ton. and I was pretty determined to get it done in a day, so I just kept plugging away at it.

seriously, I started one afternoon and finished the next afternoon. and I did cook meals and clean up and sleep. ;) as I mentioned earlier in a comment, I have made this pattern before, so that helped because I had previous experience with the pattern.